On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:25:46PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > You have a ridiculously complicated "system" for organizing your mail, > > and it's mutt's fault for doing what it does well. No. > > Sorry for previous flame -- I cannot resist, but I am serious -- mutt is > lacking. It is not its mistake, it is by design, which has its advantages, > but it has its limits as well. Sometimes little advertised fact is that > mutt was never intended to be MUA -- it's like a kit with which you can > built your own MUA. You have to add SMTP server, filtering, IMAP > manipulation, anti-spam filtering, vfolders, and anything else you would > like your MUA to do. The result could be really good, but when you want > more than just simple things (or when you are not that classy programmer) > it's getting ridiculously complicated. > > My requests were not that complicated (kmail can do it easily), but with > mutt it became really complicated -- synchronizing with IMAP folders (more > folders, not just INBOX), filtering according to body (so no imapfilter), > and of course anti-spam. That meant isync, than scripts going through list > of folders and applying procmail on each message and applying bogofilter to > each message. You have to manage proper trashing of messages (be aware, > that isync was not able work with removed messages, I had to trash them > properly). > > OK, I am flawless human, but when made twice mistake in these scripts which > caused lost messages, I decided that this is twenty-first century and I > should not do everything myself. I switched to KMail and I have never > regretted it. And yes, I like that I am able to read HTML-mail (read, not > write). I don't address your other complaints as I have other requirements than you do, but do you mean to say that you can't read html in mutt? A simple entry in your ~/.muttrc 'auto_view text/html' plus an entry in your ~/.mailcap (e.g. 'text/html;links %s') will surely cure that problem.
Generally I tink that it boils down to your requirements in a MUA. I personally wouldn't call a MUA lacking because it doesn't fullfill my requirements. For example I avoid MUAs with a GUI as they don't offer any feature I need. Do I call them bloated because of this? So to each his own I'd say. All the best Andreas > > Just to explain what I meant, > > Mat??j > > -- > GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC > http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 > > A nuclear war can ruin your whole day. > > > -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379
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